README

"Why we should use the Gini coefficient to assess Punctuated Equilibrium Theory"
constantin.kaplaner@gsi.uni-muenchen.de
yves.steinebach@gsi.uni-muenchen.de

11.05.2021

Description:
The R script "replication_why_gini.R" replicates the analysis in "Why we should use the Gini coefficient to assess Punctuated Equilibrium Theory" published in Political Analysis. This includes all figures and reported values from the main text and the supplementary material. The replication can be done solely by running the script at hand. Package dependencies are noted in the script. For the analysis we used R version 4.0.2.
 
Please note: 
We use two external data sources. These are directly imported from the links provided by the authors. For the budget data we rely on data collected by the Comparative Agendas Project (Jones et al., 2009, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2009.00405.x). We use the version provided by Fatke et al. (2019, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8DWAZW).
Furthermore, we use data from Lundgren et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-017-9288-x). Please refer to the original sources when using this data.

RUNNING TIME
The following running time was clocked on a personal computer with an Intel Core i5-8259U with 4 cores at 2.3 GHz and 8GB of Ram running macOS 11.1:

Total:  1.912159 mins

